That's exhilarating if you're doing well, and very crushing if you're not. It leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim -- it leads to increased rates of suicide. There are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world. And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure.

"The past is a country we can never return to, but whose borders we are always crossing."

人类的创作犹如自然的创作一样，真正地说起来，值得注意的主要是动机。

The greatest works are those that are still being read long after their authors have died.